Five Women
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Robert Musil
Robert Musil, fully Robert Mathias Edler von Musil (November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.
Musil was the son of...
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